Board Thread:DmC Rebooted/@comment-34375842-20180119151950/@comment-96.255.69.202-20190318170646

I'm not going to go through every point you made, but here's my take on it.

They really didn't need to change much, they just needed to execute it better.

Dante in DmC isn't a bad character, just a poorly explained one. Yes in the beginning he's an ass. He doesn't care about anything, because he's constantly hunted by demons but doens't know why and I can understand that. He doesn't remember who his parents are, that he's a nephelim, that he has a brother, that mundus screwed him over.

It isn't until he meets Vergil, is told what he is, that he has a brother, and recovers his memory that he changes and starts to become more of the dante that we know from the original series. Still not as cocky, but starts to show it more. But more importantly, he shows more maturity similar to his classic counterpart from that point onwards as well, caring more about kat, his brother, and the state of humanity. People seem to forget that underneath all the sass of OG Dante is a character who genuinly cares about people above all else. The sassy attitude is a front, hiding that underneath it all he's a very serious person. DmC Dante is the same way. Yes he has his "FUCK YOU" exchange with succubus, but later on shows a lot of compassion for Kat's wellbeing. And by the end of the game, you can tell that he's grown quite a bit, fighting his brother to protect humanity from another tyrant. He could have killed Vergil, but didn't because Kat made him understand that he was beaten. If Dante was really this "edgy fuck-everything guy" that so many DmC haters say he is, he woudln't give a damn about Vergil, but he gave him another chance, then questioned who is was and what his place in the world is.

Now, as stated before, his character wasn't really executed well. They should have shown more of Dante questioning his place in the world earlier on in the story, after meeting Vergil. It would have been good to have more cutscenes between Dante and Vergil, or Dante and Kat, having him show the softer side of him more often to better flesh him out. Instead, he goes from asshole to hero then confused hero by the end, and it all felt really poorly paced.

With regards to his look, I liked it tbh. People bitched about his hair, but tbh it turned white by the end of the game, so yea. Yes he didn't have the red coat, but hey Capcom wanted a different looking Dante. I like how as the game went on, his hair would get longer and also turn white, which I thought was a subtle way of showing him growing up and becoming more of OGD by the end as his personality does change to be a bit closer to OGD

Kat would have benefited from being more involved yes, but I think that was the point of her character. Vergil was willing to throw her away at the end, but Dante had to explain to him that they would have failed in taking down Mundus time and time again had Kat not been there. She found Dante, she kept getting Dante out of Limbo, she got Dante into limbo in the Verility factory, she drew up the plan and mapped out Mundus' HQ. Without her, Dante would have been stranded in Limbo, they never would have gotten Mundus' mistress (not because she showed them where she was or anything, but because saving her was the catalyst that led to the idea of abducting Lilith). The only things I would change with her would be the previously mentioned extra scenes for character development, and maybe a few scenes of her being able to fend for herself or something. But tbh, she's only human. Shes a civilian, and the one place where she could have maybe stood a chance would have been against a group of trained, armed police officers, and that wasn't going to happen. Dante even made that point, telling her when the Order's HQ was stormed for her to not fight back, probably knowing if she did she'd get killed and he didn't want that. I'm not saying she was perfect the way she was, but the role she played in the story really couldn't be done another way, not that I can think of anyways, without some major changes to the story and its outcome.

I disagree with the Vergil thing. Yes in the beginning I didn't like his character because he seemed so different from what i'm accustomed to with Vergil, and by the end he still is somewhat different. OGV relies on no one. He wants power, and he gets it by doing everything himself, for himself. He's honorable, but still if the end result is him getting power he will do it. DmC Vergil is similar but was willing to work with others to further his goals. You mentioned that he's a "manipulative pussy" and I have to say, I disagree. I don't think he was ever TRYING to manipulate anyone. At the end of the game, he casually mentions him and Dante ruling over humanity after Mundus is gone, and when Kat and Dante are like "wait, what?" he looks genuinely confused. I don't think he was trying to manipulate them, I think he honestly thought they knew what his plan was all along and were ok with it. Hell, this is explained in the DLC, where Vergil is confronted by phantom versions of himself, Kat, and Dante and Vergil is acting as if he is a victim of betrayal.

I agree with the Mundus thing. He looks liess like a demon and more like Thing from Fantastic 4.

The wig joke. ugh i'm so tired of hearing this... its a joke. This wasn't NT shitting on fans or OG Dante. This was just poking fun at Dante's original look. Poking fun at =/= shitting on. Other mediums do this with reboots, comic books being a big one. Redesigned characters will see something that looks like their older design and poke fun at it. Why fans of comic books which have been around for like 50+ years, who can be RABID at times, can take the joke but fans of a character action video game that is like 18 years old can't really makes no sense. Its even funnier when you think about it, because by the end of the game his hair turns WHITE and is LONGER. Not as long as the wig/moptop, but still its noticeable.